Some 2.5 tons of beef brisket and 20, 000 pounds of shrimp will be served in the hotel's main ballroom, which is decorated with dangling silver stars and cowboy figures.

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Broccoli Beef Brisket (fat-laced slabs of brisket and Chinese broccoli, doused in garlicky smoked-oyster sauce).

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Servers at Barbie's Q ( www.barbiesq.com) proffer samples of juicy grilled chicken and silky beef brisket, served either North Carolina-style or St.

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The most common is beef brisket -- with a combination of patience, experience and skill, a seasoned pit boss can transform this notoriously tough meat into a perfectly smoked, tender slab of heaven.

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